Are we heading
towards a fibber society?
Just imagine a society
where everyone enjoys lying, engages in frauds and puts deceitful allegations
over each other. What do you think about the future of such a society and how will
the world look at it? In Angutara Nikaya,
Buddha mentions that societies based on falsities and lies are prone to suffer
utter chaos and collapse. Certainly, truthfulness is the fundamental
requirement for the existence of any harmonious and peaceful society. According
to the reports of National Crime Records Bureau (NCRB) on police and court
disposal of cases for crime against women in India, 8 out of 10 registered FIRs
in the years 2016 to 2018 were false or unsubstantiated, quotes Rajesh Sehgal
in his book “NOT GUILTY: Fabricated Implication Report-FIR”[1] while between 2006 to
2016 only 1 out of 7 dowry related cases resulted in conviction.[2] These facts coincides
well with the RTI reports circulating on social media platforms stating the
conviction rate in 498A and DV cases to be as low as 4%. False rape allegations
too follow similar trends.[3] In fact two years ago, a
court in Delhi had advised Delhi commission for women (DCW) not to lodge false
rape cases.[4] It is evident that majority of the cases
filed by Indian women are of deceitful nature. Besides the fact that the legal
system is too liberal for women in India, there is no strict law for the
punishment of deceitful women. Consequently, evil women do not hesitate to
lodge bogus complaints as they easily get away without facing any criminal
proceedings or civil damages thus promoting legal terrorism in the country. While
on the other hand, innocent men and their family members have to bear
immeasurable mental torture, public humiliation, financial and reputation losses.
This is one of the major cause of ever increasing men suicide in the country.
Following the Guardians
and Wards Act, 1890 and Hindu Minority and Guardianship Act, 1956 which lacks
provision for shared parenting, child custody is often awarded in favor of the
mother. In this scenario, a child is forced to live with a deceitful mother. Now
since “a mother is the first teacher of every child”, it is apparent that the
custody of children with deceitful mothers would definitely inculcate habits of
deceiving and fraud engagements. As children are both the makers and markers of
societies therefore children with bad habits would certainly impart such habits
to their peers which could eventually turn a society into a deceitful one. Therefore
it becomes extremely mandatory to punish the false accuser women. Since all the
laws in India are unilaterally meant for the protection of women, a strict
punishment law is urgently required to punish the false accuser women against
the misuse of gender biased laws. Besides averting from heading towards a
fibber society, a strict punishment law for false accusers would drastically reduce
the number of fabricated cases and hence the burden on the judiciary to a large
extent. This will also aid the genuine victims in acquiring fair, timely and
economical justice.
References:
1. https://www.amazon.com/NOT-GUILTY-Fabricated-Implication-Report-FIR-ebook/dp/B08BK85GSY.
2. https://www.sbs.com.au/language/english/80-per-cent-of-all-dowry-cases-in-india-end-in-acquittal.
3. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/feb/11/spare-innocent-men-anguish-india-ruling-aims-to-end-false-claims.
4. https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/dont-advise-women-to-lodge-false-rape-cases-court/article23337654.ece.
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